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Light Up the Sky is a three-act play written by the American playwright Moss Hart. It is a character-driven satire with the fast pacing of a farce, a simple plot, medium-sized cast, and only one setting. The plot concerns the interrelations of theater people before and after a first-night tryout, when they experience nervous anticipation ...
- November 18, 1948
- Royale Theatre, New York City
- Moss Hart
- Moss Hart
Synopsis. Moss Hart’s Light Up the Sky takes place in the hotel room of Broadway actress Miss Irene Livingston, prior to the opening of a new play in an out-of-town tryout. Over the course of the evening -- and thus, over the course of the play -- we follow a truck-driver-turned-playwright watching his first play being produced in Boston.
Light Up the Sky full plot summary including detailed synopsis and summaries for each scene. ... Light Up the Sky; ... Play. Writers: Moss Hart. 0. Tweet. Plot Overview;
Mar 13, 2020 · Set in the 1940s, Light Up the Sky is a hilarious homage to the Golden Age of American theatre, chock full of charismatic personalities, whiz-bang shenanigans and peppy quick-fire dialogue. “What I love about this play is that it is a love letter to the theatre,” said Coleman. “Moss Hart has enormous affection for both how hard it is to ...
May 10, 1996 · In his 1948 comedy "Light Up the Sky," Moss Hart set out to depict the foibles and eccentricities of theater people from a wry, "business as usual" perspective rooted in his experience as a hugely ...
Keith Runyon research files on Moss Hart (2018_178) Entire Collection: In 1998 Keith Runyon, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and editor of the Editorial and Forum pages of Louisville’s Courier-Journal, undertook research on a full length biography of Moss Hart. Gaining access to the papers of Hart and his associates held at repositories ...
Summary. The comedy revolves around a group of New York theatre-folk who attend the opening of their new play in Boston. The lead actress, the backer, and several others, are in seventh heaven at the prospect of a tremendous success which they hope for in the work of a young unknown writer. Gathered in a hotel room, these people go through ...
